Winter Westfest 2025

Thursday 27th November 4:00pm–8:00pm

Miller’s Wynd Car Park, Perth Road, Dundee

Stalls & Food | Music

Winter Westfest is back—and bigger than ever!

Our beloved community Christmas event returns featuring music, a local sustainably-focused market, a visit from Santa, and plenty of festive cheer! You’ll find many of your favourite stalls back again this year, plus some incredible new businesses joining the celebration.

Come along, soak up the festive spirit, and support local this Christmas.

Supported By

Stalls & Food

Smelleez
Soap and grooming products for everyone and their dog
Cairn O mohr
Locally made wines, ciders and non-alcoholic drinks.
Altitude Candles
Candles, bath salts, prints, wax melts, smoke bundles, zero waste tea lights and sustainable gift wrapping.
Linda Bee Draws Dundee
Lindabee Draws Dundee will be selling all your local Dundee favourite prints, cards and mini prints – perfect gifts to be a step ahead for Christmas and especially for those tricky to buy for people in your life. Prices from £2 upwards, there’s something for everyone’s budget – bring a tote bag!
Law Brewing
Independent craft beer produced in Dundee – gift packs and cans.
Transition Dundee
Upcycled goods, made from secondhand and donated clothing. Bags, gloves, hats, makeup bags, aprons etc.
Hevs Makes
Croched positive pals.
Andrew Morrison Gardener
A selection of plants and Christmas wreaths.
King Good Cakes
Home made cakes and biscuits such as mini loaf sponges, empire biscuits, muffins and cake pops. There will be vegan and gluten free options.
Yolla Studio
Yolla.studio is a creative small business offering bold and colorful handprinted waxed cotton bags and purses, along with stylish screen printed jumpers and tshirts.
Oxfam Lochee
Sourced by Oxfam, the shop offers ethically made and fair-trade products that support artisans and small producers around the world.
The Wee Red Barn
Recycling old wooden furniture and pallets, giving them new life as something else, pretty and functional
Wilder Reworks
Dundee based, female owned, fashion brand that specialises in reworking surplus and damaged clothing into new 1-1 garments and accessories.
The No Pineapple Pizza Project
The No Pineapple Pizza Project is a mobile pizza van serving authentic, pineapple-free pizza, believing pineapple has no place on pizza.
Helmholtz Media

A local photographer who enjoys capturing unseen and under appreciated sights from around Dundee, which can be seen on @dundee_in_pictures Instagram with a wider range of subject matter including gigs and other live performances, portraits, still life, and place further afield than Dundee – at @helmholtzmedia.

Music

The New Dundee Choir That Doesn’t Have A Name Yet are joining us for a special performance at Winter Westfest this year! As a lively and vibrant community choir based in the West End of Dundee, they’ll be singing festive favourites and showing how much fun it is to sing in a group.

About Winter Westfest

Returning for one night only, the Dundee Westfest team will provide an enchanting start to the West End Christmas Fortnight, with its second Winter Westfest event, featuring a traditional Christmas market in Miller’s Wynd car park.

Santa will also be appearing on his sleigh to give out goody bags to children attending the market and there will be a choral service in West End Church to coincide with the start of the Christmas Fortnight.

From 4pm on Thursday, November 27, the festive light trail will be book-ended by illuminations at Blackness Library in Sinderins and The Gate Church, while colourful floodlights and festive-themed images, including children’s and art students’ artworks alongside interactive computer games, will be projected onto buildings up both sides of the road.

Many of the Perth Road businesses will be opening late and joining in the fun with impressive window displays and colourful shop lights.

Dundee Westfest chairperson Alan Wilson said the whole event has taken a year of careful planning in conjunction with West End Councillor Fraser MacPherson and the West End Christmas Fortnight committee.

“We’ve applied for a licence but we’ve also been working closely with Dundee City Council’s events team and the safety advisory group, so barring any unforseen issues we’re hoping the licence will be granted at the next meeting.

“We’d worked with Dundee-based company Steve Page Lighting Ltd on a previous idea which was torpedoed by the Covid lockdown in 2020,” he said, “so when Steve suggested resurrecting it on the Perth Road last year, we thought it was a great idea for a Winter Westfest.

“And while it’s to provide a colourful spectacle for families to enjoy we’re also hoping to provide the traders with a bit of a boost in terms of driving footfall up towards the far end of Perth Road to enjoy late night shopping.

“We’ve taken over the running of the Christmas Market at Miller’s Wynd from the Christmas Fortnight team and the entire event is being organised by most of our volunteer Westfest Big Sunday committee.

“We’ve been in talks with staff and gamers from Abertay University and staff from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design to include interactive computer games and exciting original artworks as part of our Lights Trail, while shops and businesses from Miller’s Wynd up to Sinderins are all tremendously excited by the plans.

“We’re also really excited about bringing it to fruition, a lot of work has gone into it and our volunteer committee have once again worked tirelessly, giving up their valuable time to provide something wonderful for the people of the west end.

“Hopefully those people will come out on November 28 and enjoy the fabulous illuminations and projections as well as the wonderful shop displays all the way up both sides of the Perth Road.

“We’re really grateful to the trustees of the city council’s Festive Fund for the grant we received which, along with gratefully received donations from the traders and any sponsorship we have attracted, has made this event possible.

“Lastly we would appeal for anyone who would like to volunteer to help us on the day, to assist with keeping people safe as they take in the illuminations on the festive lights trail.”

Contact

For more information about the event, please contact Westfest Chairperson Lucy Hay via email at ***

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